How do I become untraceable?

Question

I wish to become as hard for anyone to find as possible.

What ways are usually used to trace someone, and how i can avoid them?

Answer 1

!!!!POOOOFFFFF!!!!

Just like that!!! vanish into thin air. No one will find you. No one.

With modern technology, if someone really want to find someone there's nothing that can hide him away unless he just POOF and vanish into thin air.

Answer 2

You can't!

You are on government records and those of your parents for taxes, births, marriages, census etc.

You have bank accounts.

You have the vote.

You have a passport.

You have an internet acount...mobile/home phone.

Tv licence. Credit card. Store cards. Job. Benefits. A car/drivng licence.

Even if you change your name it won't erase you.

Answer 3

Use your magic wand.

Answer 4

Become an unpaid shepherd in the hills of Wales, nobody will find you there!!

Answer 5

Even if you do everything they suggested above and became a virtual hermit, then, by Law, your birth would still be registered, and if you were born after 1984, very easily searched on Ancestry.com.

Answer 6

It's basically impossible.  For starters you've got a Yahoo account and even if you gave them a fake name, you're obviously still on the internet with an ISP and a phone number, so both of those would have to go out the window pretty sharpish.  You'd have to get a pay-as-you-talk phone and only use cash to top-up with.  You'd have to get rid of that bank account as well, plus any credit and debit cards.  That means no loans as well, and don't go buying or leasing a house.  Find yourself a cave somewhere basically and live off the land.  If you buy anything at all or do any work, it must always be in cash, as you won't want to pay tax and appear on the governments computers, so if you have a proper job give it up now.  If you need the dentist or doctor you'll have to resort to a pair of pliers and a hacksaw, or else use a false name.  Ditto if you ever go into hospital.  If you live in a house you'll have to make sure you're not on the electoral roll, and certainly make sure you're not in the phone book.  Any myspace or other social networking accounts will have to be deleted as well before you give up the internet completely.   You'll have to disown all your family and friends, move to an area you're not known in and basically try and keep under the radar net, which is basically impossible unless you become a hermit and complete recluse.  People will probably then think you're quite mad and have you committed.  As long as you're not previously known to the police with your fingerprints or DNA on file, you might just get away with a fake name and being locked up as "John Doe".

In the long run rather than try to hide completely, your best option is to give yourself a new identity.  Move across the country, get a new job and try and get new documents in your new assumed name.  Once you get one document, the whole thing snowballs.  The only problem is getting a fake birth certificate in the first place.  Some people try trawling through old newspapers from around the time they were born and try and find a child who was born and died young, and apply for a certificate that way, assuming the identity of the dead child.  It rarely works though.  Only in the movies.

Answer 7

Phone directories

Websites (Eg. Myspace etc)

Census forms...

to be fair, it's quite hard to hide...

Answer 8

Delete every social networking account you have (although it will still be discoverable through the internet cache online); never have listed numbers, never open any service account like phone, elec, water in your name, never finance anything, never sign a lease - atually it's pretty impossible. Go to zabasearch.com and type in your name. It will list you in so many different ways your head will spin.

There are also search tools out there that will link to you based on your known associated from the recent past.

As far as cutting the chord goes, you pretty much need to move to a rural area where you can work under the table, live in a rented room and get around without having to have a registered vehicle. Also, forget donating money, using debit/credit cards and anything else where ID is necessary. Current search tools link to all of those things.

Weird, huh?

Answer 9

A little late to be completely untraceable, but I can give you some suggestions.

First, buy nothing in your own name. Every home that's bought and sold is public record. Every mortgage is filed with the title to the land, so every public record company picks them up and publishes the information within weeks of it being filed. Every car that's bought has the name(s) of the buyer(s) sold on mailing lists to every insurance company. Every time you apply for credit of any kind, it goes on your credit report...and those are sold in mailing lists.

That leads to the second part. Contact all three of the credit reporting agencies and put in writing that you don't want your personal information sold. You have to opt out or they assume you don't mind.

From there, only use a cell phone for every contact number you give out. No one publishes the owners of cell phones and no one is allowed to telemarket to cell phones. In fact, in states like Michigan it's not even allowed for a creditor to call you on that phone number unless you've given them permission in writing.

Never get a student loan. There's not as much privacy as you would think with federally guaranteed student loans. The information is sold on mailing lists and given to other banks to market to you. I don't understand it, but it is what it is. If you have a balance on a GSL, pay it off.

Get a post office box for all of your mail. That keeps anyone from knowing where your home is. Most tracing is done these days by address or phone number (since SSNs can't be used anymore).

Pay for everything in cash. Every debit and credit transaction can be quickly traced.

Use a completely fake name on the internet and don't have a static IP address. I can usually trace people in under 2 minutes using a cyber sleuth program if they post something on the internet. The only way around it is a dynamic IP address (Sprint uses them) that only the ISP can identify to an address.

Don't subscribe to any magazines. Don't write checks. Don't apply for any job that does a background or credit check. And most of all, don't tell anyone who you really are. I knew one guy in college who really wanted to join the CIA. He went as far as never having any 2 pictures taken of himself that looked like each other and never let his ears show on any pictures (something about photo ID software that uses ears as a point of identification). So I don't know how far you want to take it, but that's the gist of how easily we can find living people in this day and age.

Answer 10

What price will you be willing to pay in terms of family, friends, etc.? Acutally, it is easier to disappear nowadays than ever before because there are so many people (nearly 7 Billion alive today on this planet).

The most common way to trace someone is through their social security number (if American); driver's license; any and all other forms of Government-issued I.D.s.  Which is why the I.D. thieves have such an easy time.

Of course, people are easily traced through the Post Office; telephone companies; utilitity bills; library cards; rent/mortgages, etc., etc., etc.

Unless you have enough MONEY to live on by paying cash and not working, or you are willing to work as a Mexican (or any Illegal), do day labor, etc., it will be very difficult. If you have family, it will be difficult.

But, hey, I have lived out on the streets; it isn't easy, it isn't fun, but millions do it, at least for a time.

You can petition for a name change; you might even be able to get the Social Security Administration to issue you a new Social Security Number (unlikely) but if you go that route, there will always be a trace.

If you want to disappear, don't use credit cards, phones, don't drive, don't work anywhere where you need to give personal information, don't sign a lease or any type of contract...just simply walk down the road...

But, before you head out, get a copy of "How To Be Invisible" by J.J. Luna.  He gives a lot of tips.  He also warns people that with no more information than a name and date of birth, a person can be found in New York City.

So, you would need a completely new identity, unknown to anyone except yourself.

All of the above is legal...